Drain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)

   “The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.”

2. isim An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
3. isim A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.

   “Saganing Drain, Vermuyden's Drain, the South Drain river, Najafgarh drain”

4. isim Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.

   “That rental property is a drain on our finances.”

5. isim An act of urination.
6. isim One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
7. isim An outhole.
8. isim A drink.

   “When the play was over, we came out together, and I said, "We've been very companionable and agreeable, and perhaps you wouldn't object to a drain?"”

9. fiil To lose liquid.

   “The clogged sink drained slowly.”

10. fiil To flow gradually.

    “The water of low ground drains off.”

11. fiil To cause liquid to flow out of.

    “Please drain the sink. It’s full of dirty water.”

12. fiil To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

    “They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.”

13. fiil To deplete of energy or resources.

    “The stress of this job is really draining me.”

14. fiil To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.

    “Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.”

15. fiil To filter.

    “Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.”

16. fiil To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

    “When a ball finally drains, it's gulped down by a giant gator beneath the set of flippers.”

17. fiil To drink.

    “But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter.”

18. fiil To make a shot.
19. özel isim A surname.
20. özel isim A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.